北京大學(xué)英文簡介終稿

1、1Peking UniversityEnglish-Chinese Summer Program31．北京大學(xué)簡介 ．北京大學(xué)簡介Peking University：A Brief HistoryPeking University was founded in 1898, and had as its first English name the Imperial University of Peking. It was the

2、first national comprehensive university and the highest administrative organ for education in China. The establishment of this University marked the beginning of China's modern history of higher education. It was

3、in 1912, after the Revolution of 1911, that the University adopted its present name. In 1917, when Mr. Cai Yuanpei, an outstanding scholar and educator, was appointed President of Peking University, he succeeded in t

4、ransforming the University from an imperial school into a modern university. Peking University also became the center of the Chinese New-Culture Movement and the earliest base for the spread of Marxism in China. By 1

5、919, Peking University had developed into China’s largest institution of higher learning, with 14 departments and more than 2,000 students. Since then Peking University has remained for many decades the center of mo

6、dern culture and democracy in China.During the War of Resistance against Japanese invasion in the 1930s, Peking University moved to Kunming, in Yunnan Province in the southwest, and formed the National Southwestern Ass

7、ociated University together with Tsinghua University and Nankai University. In 1946, after the victory of the anti-Japanese War, Peking University moved back to Beijing. At that time Peking University was composed of

8、six schools (Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, Engineering，and Agriculture), and a research institute for Humanities. The total enrollment of students had grown to 3,000. After the founding of the People's Republic of